Variability in the Southern Annular Mode determines wildfire activity in Patagonia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Holz, Andrés ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANT EXTRACTS;

20TH CENTURY; DATA SETS; FIRE ACTIVITY; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE REGIMES; FIRE SUPPRESSION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LATITUDINAL RANGE; PATAGONIA; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TELECONNECTIONS; TEMPERATE RAINFOREST; TREE RING RECORDS; UPWARD TREND; WOODLAND HABITAT;

FIRES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL WARMING; RAINFOREST; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TELECONNECTION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WILDFIRE; WOODLAND;

BIOMASS; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; EXTRACTIVES; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; PATAGONIA; PLANTS;

PATAGONIA;

EID: 79961120409     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047674     Document Type: Article

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